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[–]Agodachi 37 insightful - 3 fun37 insightful - 2 fun38 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting to see that female and male socialization is still at play here. From a young age girls are expected to have kids, partake in household duties (cooking, cleaning) and are usually the ones to look after their siblings. This is especially true in immigrant, traditional households like the one I grew up in. My brother had so much freedom and wasn't pressured as much as I was about dating/marriage, the expectation to have kids (my brother could say he didn't want to have kids and my family will just brush it off as whatever, when I said I didn't want to have kids- at the age of 15- they didn't say "oh you're young," no, they said "you're a girl and you must have kids."

Girls are expected to have families, make sacrifices for their families, even if that means giving up their dreams and passions. This is probably why you see trans men in family groups and no trans women. That female socialization is still ingrained in them. It's because they were raised based off of their sex, and it can be reflected in the behaviors and actions if trans men vs trans women.